On The Tender Spot Kendrick Lamar storytelling and woe - presented

storytelling and woe - presented in a compelling manner

Released in the Spring of 2023

Bennie And The Jets

it marked the end of one aspect of the group's development and was their last new music for three years

The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios

On The Tender Spot Kendrick Lamar storytelling and woe - presentedAmbrose Akinmusire follows his acclaimed, genre busting best of 2018 manifesto "Origami Harvest" with another visionary statement on his new album "on the tender spot of every calloused moment," which finds the trumpeter examining blackness on an uncompromising set of modern jazz laced with a heavy feeling of the blues. The album presents 11 new compositions by Akinmusire and features his quartet with pianist Sam Harris, bassist Harish Raghavan, and